{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-96",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-96.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/198",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/96",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "96",
  "heading": "Date on which income is treated as paid",
  "text": "(1) Except where paragraph (2) applies, a payment of income to which regulation 94 (calculation of earnings derived from employed earner’s employment and income other than earnings) applies shall be treated as paid—\n(a) in the case of a payment which is due to be paid before the first benefit week pursuant to the claim, on the date on which it is due to be paid;\n(b) in any other case, on the first day of the benefit week in which it is due to be paid or the first succeeding benefit week in which it is practicable to take it into account.\n(2) Income support, maternity allowance, short-term or long-term incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance or jobseeker’s allowance shall be treated as paid on the day of the benefit week in respect of which it is payable.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 96 in operation at 7.10.1996, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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      "type": "words inserted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
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    {
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    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Students and Income-Related Benefits Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
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    },
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/428",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 5) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/286",
      "affecting_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
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      "type": "words substituted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 5) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
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    },
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      "affecting": "nisr/2011/135",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
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    },
    {
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      "affecting": "nisr/2011/135",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2016/236",
      "affecting_title": "The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2016/236",
      "affecting_title": "The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/198/regulation/96",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:36:06.555307+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}